Beastmaker Post “The Mask of Satan” Video
This weekend, Fresno, California, doom trio Beastmaker head over to tour the UK and Europe in support of their newly-released album, Lusus Naturae (review here). They’ll play Roadburn and Desertfest London alongside labelmates Blood Ceremony, as well as a few dates with With the Dead, who’ll be making their own live debut this month. If you gotta travel, it’s a pretty good way to go, but Beastmaker had made a splash leading up to the record’s release, so that they’d continue to do so seems not at all unreasonable. Given the attention to ambience and cultish classicism Lusus Naturae demonstrates, it makes sense.
I’ll be curious to see if they tour the US as well to support the record, maybe beyond select dates here and there, but especially with having released Lusus Naturae on the UK-based Rise Above Records, starting abroad seems like the way to go. The band’s new video for “The Mask of Satan” — I can’t possibly be the only one who thinks of the MST3K episode “The Touch of Satan,” can I? — is a fairly concise commercial for a lot of what works about the record as a whole, with its foundational heavy rock swing, vaguely evil bent and catchy songwriting. Combining performance and otherwise found footage, it’s a play toward grainy horror that fits well with the aesthetic of the album. You know the drill by now, I’m sure.
Cool band, cool song. Watch it and listen and dig.
Tour dates follow the video below:
Beastmaker, “The Mask of Satan” official video
BEASTMAKER Debut Video For “The Mask of Satan”
“In a world of pop music we are freaks. We do everything completely opposite of what the current formula of doing things is. We recorded and produced everything ourselves with no outside influences. We play a style of music that is underground. We are all freaks of nature.” So proclaims BEASTMAKER singer, guitarist and mastermind Trevor William Church. Hence the title of BEASTMAKER’s debut: Lusus Naturae, or Freak Of Nature. “When you think differently and do things unconventionally, you are an outsider,” he ventures. “We wanted to bring a natural essence back into music the best way we could in a digital world.” Lusus Naturae is out now via Rise Above Records.
Beastmaker and Blood Ceremony on tour:
Apr 10 The Deaf Institute Manchester, UK w/ With the Dead
Apr 11 O2 Institute Birmingham, UK w/ With the Dead
Apr 13 Moon Club Cardiff, Wales
Apr 15 Le Backstage by The Mill Paris, France
Apr 16 Roadburn Festival Tilburg, The Netherlands
Apr 17 The Rock Café Sankt Pauli, Germany
Apr 18 Privatclub Berlin, Germany
Apr 19 Chelsea Wien, Austria
Apr 20 Backstage Munchen, Germany
Apr 21 Bronson Madonna del l’alberto, Italy
Apr 22 Legend Club Milan, Italy
Apr 23 Coq d’Or Olton, Switzerland
Apr 24 Hirsch Nurnberg, Germany
Apr 25 Nachtleben Frankfurt, Germany
Apr 26 MTC Club Cologne, Germany
Apr 28 The Deaf Institute Manchester, United Kingdom
Apr 29 Audio Glasgow, United Kingdom
Apr 30 The Rainbow Cellar Birmingham, United Kingdom
May 01 Desertfest London, UK
